Welcome Tina — Director of Engineering

Backblaze is getting bigger, and our engineering team is no exception! We’ve brought on a lot of great talent over the last few months, and we needed someone to make sure that team was running smoothly and efficiently. To make sure that our engineers have the tools they need and to keep all the projects moving forward we’ve brought on Tina, our Director of Engineering. Lets learn a bit more about Tina shall we?

What is your Backblaze Title?
Director of Engineering.

Where are you originally from?
Southern California.

What attracted your to Backblaze?
Product and people.

What do you expect to learn while being at Backblaze?
Cloud backup software.

Where else have you worked?
Salesforce.

Where did you go to school?
Cal Poly Pomona.

What’s your dream job?
Working with people who are passionate about building great software products and having fun while doing it.

Favorite place you’ve traveled?
Bora Bora.

Favorite Hobby?
Traveling and exploring new restaurants.

Of what achievement are you most proud?
Building great engineering teams.

Star Trek or Star Wars?
Both.

Coke or Pepsi?
Jasmine tea.

Favorite Food?
Fried chicken.

Anything else you’d like to tell us?
I’m a foodie, and a Yelp Elite. You can find my reviews on Yelp.

Tina joined us just a few weeks ago and has already had a positive impact. We are very excited to see where she leads the team going forward!

About Yev

Yev Pusin is the senior director of Marketing and sometimes Marketing chief of staff at Backblaze, which he joined in 2011. Yev has a degree in business and communications from the University of Iowa, where he developed an alliteration affinity. Yev enjoys writing in an amusing way about the "why" of things and how decisions are made, so that readers can learn and be entertained all at once. Follow Yev on: Twitter: @YevP | LinkedIn: Yev Pusin